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ALTRO NOW A RECOMMENDED SUPPLIER OF
FLOORS AND WALLS FOR PROCURE22
Altro has been appointed as a recommended supplier of vinyl and resin floors
and floor accessories on the Department of Health’s ProCure22 Framework
for NHS and social care construction schemes in England. Altro floor
systems, including Altro Orchestra, Altro Aquarius and Altro Wood Safety, are
recommended for use throughout healthcare environments. This follows Altro’s
appointment in 2018 as a recommended supplier of wall and door systems,
including the Altro Whiterock and Altro Fortis systems.
The ProCure22 (P22) process is
designed to achieve improved value
for money and reduce exposure
to risk through a simplified capital
procurement procedure.
With up to 20-year product
guarantees, Altro can ensure
healthcare environments provide an
impervious, hygienic and durable
environment, meeting the stringent
requirements in critical hygiene
areas. With a vast array of colours, including wood-look designs, a warm and
welcoming environment can be created to reduce stress and improve patient
and sta wellbeing, without compromising on hygiene standards.
Altro provides a wide selection of floor solutions that can be used in all areas of
health and care environments, including specialist safety solutions for areas with
a high slip risk, including bathrooms and kitchens.
Altro has also been awarded DSDC accreditation, and is the only manufacturer
to have HACCP approval for both floor and wall products.
www.altro.co.uk
(0) 1462 489 516
enquiries@altro.com
TORK OFFERS VIRTUAL REALITY HAND
HYGIENE TRAINING
New from Tork is a cutting-edge
virtual reality training simulation
aimed at improving hand hygiene
in healthcare.
Manufacturer Essity collaborated
with behavioral scientists,
university hospitals and global
hand hygiene experts in developing
this ground-breaking tool.
Tork VR Clean Hands Training and
Education uses virtual reality to
provide healthcare sta with realistic scenarios where hand hygiene needs to be
carried out. And Essity believes itself to be one of the first companies ever to use
VR in a hand hygiene training simulation.
“Tork VR Clean Hands is designed to make hand hygiene training more
engaging and inspiring,” said Essity Sales Manager Liam Mynes. “Participants
put on their VR headset and prepare to start a new shi at their healthcare
workplace.
“They then face a series of real-life situations in the virtual world where they are
expected to practice hand hygiene compliance - using their own hands.
“If they fail to perform hand hygiene at the right moment, they can try again
and will soon learn to adopt excellent hand hygiene standards both in the virtual
and in the real world.”
Tork VR Clean Hands Training and Education is free to download via App
Store and Google Play and participants need a compatible smartphone and VR
headset with remote control or equivalent.
www.tork.co.uk/TorkVR
torks@essity.com
01582 677570
REAL-TIME MONITORING PROVIDING REAL-TIME BENEFITS
When a medical diagnostics company required
parameters and operating systems reach specific
a new water treatment monitoring system
levels, so that preventive action can be taken if
to improve its performance calculations and
necessary.
prevent against unnecessary alarm call-outs for
A reliable source of purified water is also critical
sta , Veolia Water Technologies UK (VWT UK)
to the company’s work and for this reason it
provided the ideal solution.
depends on a previously installed VWT UK IonPro
In the space of a weekend, VWT UK installed its
LX which uses reverse osmosis and continuous
bespoke AQUAVISTA Portal system, providing 24-
electrodeionisation (CEDI) to produce high-purity
hour remote monitoring of the site’s water systems
water with low levels of bacteria. However, without
and accurate trending of plant performance through
a water treatment monitoring system, it was
a secure private portal.
impossible to di erentiate between the general and
As a manufacturer of clinical products, it is vital
specific alarms of the company’s technology and
that the medical diagnostics company is able
sta o en did not know if immediate action was
to monitor data and record trends to ensure its
required when an alarm was produced. This resulted
compliance with various regulatory bodies. This
in numerous unnecessary night and weekend
includes knowing when its various instrument
callouts by sta and trips to the plant room to take
data readings. A new system was
required that would monitor the plant
automatically and send appropriate
notifications for di erent situations
with indications of urgency.
As the medical diagnostics company
already used the VWT UK IonPro LX,
they approached VWT UK to provide
a solution. VWT UK had recently
launched its bespoke AQUAVISTA
system – a webbased
platform
that allows users to
remotely monitor
and manage water
treatment systems
on any device, via a
secure and private
portal. The bespoke
AQUAVISTA system
was selected as the
ideal solution and
installed to monitor
the IonPro LX as well
as four individual water loops, a nitrate analyser,
an inline Total Organic Carbon (TOC) line cell and
multiple leak detection units.
The site’s alarms were then altered to allow sta
to easily distinguish between when immediate
action was required and when attention was less
immediate, preventing system errors from being
overlooked whilst also reducing unnecessary
callouts. For the client this has saved time for
sta members and reduced the costs of covering
call-outs; the company is now hoping to phase out
overnight cover shi s onsite altogether.
www.veoliawatertechnologies.co.uk 01628 879 704
/TorkVR
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